AMD A8-5500 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

A8-5500 vs Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the A8-5500 beats the Core i7-6498DU in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6498DU has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.